Rehab of Sorts

Today in the group someone posted that this diet was too restrictive. And while I agreed, because it is but I also compared the similarity to going into Rehab. Yes, Rehab.

I say this because having a diet that is this restrictive you learn about your inner emotional demons, what drives you to overeat or eat your feelings, fear, loneliness, stress, frustration, boredom, anxiety, habit. To me the hCG diet protocol as prescribed by Dr. Siemons helps you find your inner strength and gives you a new direction to channel those demons and make positive life changes. Of course entire premise is assuming you treat this as a solution and not just a diet. Not incorporating dietary changes for the long term is a recipe for yet another diet failure. Does that mean I will never have ice cream or a pastry or any fat laden, sugar rich treat with processed white flower again? Heck no. I will but it will never be to the extent I have in the past, because those types of foods are what brought me to find this solution to my weight issues. To also help me deal with why I overeat I found EFT is an excellent therapy. EFT is a powerful tool to aid in healing life issues.

To me this is a life change not just another diet. While I’m taking this journey I am also discovering food allergies, tolerance levels for foods and developing new tastes for food. I already have a long term plan for me to maintain, Atkins Low Carb is my long term solution to maintaining the weight I will be shortly. I like low carb I agree with the theory of low carb and I LOVE the food choices I have on low carb.

As of today I have been on hCG Diet for 12 days and I have lost a total of 14 pounds. I’m happy and I frankly I haven’t felt this happy or found a diet this easy to lose with since first discovering Atkins back in 1997 and losing weight.

Taking Control

I lost 2 pounds this morning. I am feeling really good. I notice I don’t eat lunch until late and I’m going to have to correct that as I’d rather have lunch around 1 vs. 3. Makes dinner very late. I am not feeling very hungry!

I picked up some oolong tea also as I saw it in the store so I thought I’d give it a try. There are many health benefits to oolong tea so, why not? I drink green tea already.

I had a bad night last night. I made the horrendous mistake of going to my favorite upscale grocery store for some specialty items. I love this store but NOT on this diet. They do taste test of foods, cook ribs, chicken, pork, fresh pastry, and oodles of deserts. I came home and thought of nothing but food. Not cravings, just thinking of food, all the food I saw I wanted to taste it as I love good food, the taste, texture, smell, feel in my mouth. I had to fight the urge to fix something out of my frig or run back and grab a rack of ribs!!

But while I was laying in bed thinking of the food, I realized, I wasn’t having a craving. I did not have a profound uncontrollable overwhelming desire to have chocolate (my drug of choice) or any food for that matter. I just wanted the damn food. This was like an epiphany, I have control. My control. Much like the song Janet Jackson sang way back in 1984.

This is a story about my Control. Control of what I say and Control of what I do, Control of what I EAT! And this time, I’m going to do this my way!